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Kindergarten · Science · Unit 7 of 8

Where Animals Live

Animals live where they can get what they need.

What your child practices

Practices matching plants and animals to places that meet their needs, and noticing how animals and people change their surroundings to get what they need.

Alaska content standards learning standard: K-ESS3-1; K-ESS2-2 · living things live where their needs are met, and they change the places they live

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Animals live where they find food, water and a home.
  2. Frogs live near ponds. Squirrels live near trees.
  3. People change places too, like planting a garden.

Example: Where does a fish live? A fish needs water to swim. It lives in a lake or stream. Answer: in water

Where Animals Live in Alaska

In the Alaska content standards, this is unit 7 of 8 in Kindergarten Science, after Stormy Weather and before Make It Work.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alaska Department of Education and Early Development

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Why do people plant gardens?

    • To grow food
    • To make wind
    • To stop the sun
    • To make snow

  2. Question 2

    People cut down trees to build houses. The land…

    • turns to water
    • stays the same
    • changes
    • floats away

  3. Question 3

    Worms dig in the soil. What happens to the soil?

    • It turns to water
    • It turns to ice
    • It disappears
    • It gets loose and airy

  4. Question 4

    Why does a squirrel live near trees?

    • For salt water
    • For nuts and a home
    • For snow
    • For sand

  5. Question 5

    Why do bees live near flowers?

    • Flowers are rocks
    • Flowers are cold
    • Flowers are salty
    • Flowers give them food

  6. Question 6

    Where can a duck find what it needs?

    • A snowy rock
    • A parking lot
    • A dry desert
    • A pond with plants

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